The Making of Yeeps: Two friends 10-year journey to build the SF-based indie game studio
Maker Faire Bay Area 2026
September 25th-27th
How do you make a top 5 VR game played by millions? Yeeps creators, Jack Southard and Nathan Jew, speed run through their milestones from first meeting as high-school freshmen to their latest hire in their 25-person indie game studio in San Francisco. What were the biggest wins? Failures? What’s it like to grow a community from 0 to 100K followers, pitch for VC funding, and put out a new game update every 3 weeks? Come to hear the stories. Finally, they describe why they launched Yeeps Maker, the plush + crafting products you can experience in a booth at Maker Faire this year.
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Yeeps / Trass Games
Trass Games is a San Francisco-based indie game studio and the creator of Yeeps, a multiplayer VR sandbox built around creativity, building, and community.
